Iran Press/ America: The prosecutor’s office raised the toll to 31 from 18 late on Tuesday after some 2,700 soldiers were deployed to take control of the over-crowded Guayas 1 prison in the port city of Guayaquil.
Battles between the rival gangs there had left 14 wounded, it said.
The government, via its communications secretariat Segcom, said “total control” has now been regained at Guayas 1, which houses more than 5,600 inmates.
It said some 120 prison officers had also been freed after being held hostage in six jails nationwide—no official information about hunger strikes allegedly occurring at some prisons.
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